Planetarium

Michael Lutin tells Sagittarians it's truth or dare

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21

You're into honesty now, so only the totally real, totally raw truth will do. Since you know you aren't going to live forever, you'll be damned if you are going to put up a false front any longer and tolerate a zipped-up, fake excuse for a life. And except for one minuscule fly in the pudding, you could pull it off: Chiron in your 12th house. It seems to suggest that little old friendly, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed you still have a few rather dark secrets you wouldn't want to see on the evening news. We all do, naturally, but yours appear to be especially juicy.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19

Why on earth should you even have to consider continuing to deal with people who are forever hurting you or abandoning you? Maybe there are lessons—good ones—to be learned from staying bonded in friendship with those who have trespassed against you. To do so with a new moon in your 11th house, in fact, is certainly one way to ensure that you will be forgiven your trespasses. You should understand that, apart from stock-market fluctuations, the main business at hand for you these days is the long-term state of your soul.

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18

We all know how much you are longing to go where they eat with their fingers, don't wear shoes, and have never heard of bras or neckties or sexist pigs or mean bosses, but don't call the bus station and pack your bags just yet. The yearlong transit of Chiron across your solar midheaven has just begun, and that means stay with it, stick it out, bite the bullet, and see things through. Granted, it would be infinitely more dignified to exit gracefully than to get the hook and be dragged kicking and screaming off the stage.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20

You are going through yet another major consciousness-raising—your umpteenth. Something quite extraordinary is happening in your brain, and you obviously must be aware of it. Chiron, the wounded healer, is streaking through your 9th house, awakening you to the wonders of the universe. If you're a scientific nerd, pick a clear night and look through a telescope in awe. If you're the artsy type, turn your gaze inward and discover the mysteries that lie waiting to be explored. If you're completely unevolved, check into rehab immediately.

ARIES

MARCH 2 I - APRIL 19

As Chiron crawls its way through your 8th house, a sexual healing is necessary. Obviously you have to yield to changes in your body, but giving these changes clinical names such as puberty, menopause, and climacteric doesn't help, because it fails to take your feelings into consideration. As for sexual honesty, we all know what studs Aries men are supposed to be, and how Aries women all run around the house in pink pajamas singing "I Enjoy Being a Girl." But let's get real. Most men have a feminine side, and some women—Aries included—are Testosterone City.

TAURUS W APRIL 20-MAY 20

Keeping relationships healthy should be your No. 1 task now. It doesn't have to be an onerous one; in fact, it can be a joyful learning experience. The recent new moon has set off a whole year during which your sensitivity to others will be called upon big-time. Don't intrude on their privacy, though. The people you tend to hook up with are touchy about that. If you have to help a loved one to the bathroom at night, or leave a snack outside the door of the laboratory of the mad genius you happen to be in love with, do it gladly. Just don't ask too many questions.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 21

When heavenly bodies such as asteroids and comets conjoin the sun and moon in your 6th house, the message is work. Repair whatever is broken and regain your physical strength and natural immunities. And, please, just because you have had some health scares in the past, don't get hysterical and run screaming to the doctor with every case of hiccups. As we all know, these days one is more likely to toss out a toaster or trade in a car than to take the time to get it fixed. But don't play that game. Your body is a temple, not a ruin to be tom down.

CANCER

JUNE 22-JULY 22

Childless Cancers are praying for pregnancy now. As Chiron passes through your 5th house, those of you who are already parents are having to come to terms with the fact that your children may be cute and adorable, but you have to sit up with them all through the night to bring down a fever, or even go to the police station in your robe and slippers to bail them out of jail. And naturally you're expected to love them to death all the while. As a Cancer, though, will you ever be able to separate your fate from theirs?

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22

Considering your ongoing conflict between remaining completely and objectively uninvolved and at the same time believing that you are gifted with royal, even superhuman qualities and powers, think this one through: if serious rifts or separations threaten to tear up a family that was once very close (and this could be the case in coming months, with Chiron in your 4th house), is it really your responsibility alone to hold everything together and stand there straddling a virtual Grand Canyon of a split?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT

When comets or asteroids go crashing through your 3rd house, you cannot avoid entanglements with siblings and others whose people skills would be downright laughable if they weren't so sad. Too much teenage acting out becomes embarrassing, since it all stems from sexual frustration. So here you go again, having to play mama and papa to those who can't stand on their own two feet. Your homework for all of next year will be to learn the lyrics to that 1969 hit "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." And don't just mouth them. Put the message into practice.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

So what if you do sneak an extra scoop of ice cream once in a while— that doesn't make you greedy and selfish, does it? And you're certainly not the type to let yourself get all bent out of shape over Grandma's brass candlesticks or a few measly royalty checks in order to become a few hundred dollars richer. Even if Chiron's entrance into your 2nd house does seem to be getting at you right where it hurts most—in your pocketbook— you're still not going to fall into those old, easy patterns. You're above all that now. You are kind of mad, though.

SCORPIO

OCT. 24-NOV. 21

Wounded animals are dangerous creatures. They are not interested in being petted or fed peanuts. They are hurting, and as long as they are hurting, they need to be given plenty of space in which to heal. As Chiron transits your sign now, you, too, need to put your body and mind back together and heal. Anyone approaching you too closely or making sudden moves should be reminded that even the sweetest, most adorable, most docile-looking bear—read Scorpio—if it is wounded, is still a bear. Not a teddy bear. A bear.

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